Destruction are providing direct support currently for Sepultura on the Metal Injection-sponsored 30th anniversary tour (dates here). But before they made it to the States, they popped into Mexico for a few dates. Nobody loves thrash more than Mexican metalheads, so it would be easy peasy for them, right? Wrong!
Metal Insider had the whole account of their awful last week, which started with the promoter of the tour bailing on them as they got there, leaving them to fend for themselves. At the time, the band wrote:
Yes the rumours are true, the promoter KENNETH PEREZ has left all local organizers and the band behind and ran away! He disappeared the day this tour started …
So also the JUAREZ show is happening tonight and we are working on transportation for the next concerts! Band and local promoters are trying their best to also make the next concerts a great success and a night to remember!!!
They then had to cancel a show, in Queretaro, due to security concerns for the safety of attendees. They promised all who bought tickets could get into the show the following day. The band went public with this news "claiming that multiple contracts about security and crowd safety were broken."
The next part of the story is absolutely insane. The band claim that the promoter with whom they had problems in Queretaro held them up at gunpoint at their hotel, stole a guitar and demanded his name be removed from their social media posts.
The guitar got stolen from the hotel . Fact. Now the thief tries to spread lies. The guitar is the most important thing that s why we would have never forgotten it anywhere!!! That s why we carry it in a carry-on-bag and don t put it in a flightcase on planes etc
The promoter stole it from the hotel storage!!! He carried a gun!!!
After the FB shitstormed the guy he called crying we should take his name off and we would give us the guitar back! So we sent somebody to meet with him and get the guitar back. This guy is full of lies – he tries to save his ass now with more lies. We can not believe all this is really happening …there are borders!!!
STEALING AND CARRING WEAPONS TO THREATHEN BANDS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH METAL!!! WE ARE ALL IN SHOCK!!!
Holy shit! Needless to say, the band is happy they got out of there. For other musicians looking to tour Mexico, maybe… uhh don't? The band went on to mention their final show went down without a hitch.
